Ravel Morrison was playing for Manchester United’s youth team when he intimidated the mugging victim

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A vulnerable mugging victim who was intimidated by ex-United starlet Ravel Morrison was let down by council youth workers, a watchdog has found.

Trafford Youth Offending Team (YOT) – part of Trafford council – caused Morrison’s victim, known as T, ‘distress and anxiety’ after a series of errors in the restorative justice process, according to a joint ruling by two government ombudsmen.

Their report said the young man – who is now 20 -– ‘was a victim twice, once from the crime against him and once from the service he received from Trafford Youth Offending Team (YOT).

Morrison was convicted along with two other teenagers in 2011 of witness intimidation – after calling, phoning and contacting the victim before he was due to give evidence in the trial of two youths who robbed him at knife-point.

The United youngster was sentenced to a 12-month referral order and ordered to pay £1,445 in costs and compensation, with his behaviour slammed as ‘appalling’ by a judge.

Now Trafford council, whose YOT is meant to enforce referral orders, has been ordered by the Local Government and Parliamentary Ombudsmen to pay £2,500 to the victim and apologise to him and his family.

The council was found guilty of maladministration for several breaches of the Victims’ Code - which is meant to ensure the involvement of victims in the restorative justice process.

But the report says that the victim’s father found Trafford council’s handling of the process ‘shambolic and unprofessional’ and ‘inhumane’.

A YOT worker, known as Officer A, was ‘insensitive’ by repeatedly encouraging the victim to have a face-to-face meeting with once of his assailants.

T was not made aware of alternatives to such a meeting, and his wishes were not taken into account when deciding the offenders’ community service, the report found. Officer A is understood by the M.E.N. to have since left Trafford council.

T’s father, speaking anonymously, said the family, from Flixton, was considering taking Trafford council to court to pursue further compensation.

He said: “The compensation is not sufficient given what this family has gone through and the intimidation we have received.

“It was quite horrendous what they have done, and the sleepless nights we have all gone through. My son was being hassled at college and it has affected his education.”

Trafford council released a statement accepting the report and offering ‘an unreserved apology’ to T and his family.

It added: “We will now consider the contents of the Ombudsman report in detail and will report within three months on further corrective action.

The standard of service generally provided by the Trafford Youth Offending Service is extremely high.”